Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction
Opening Remarks of Senator Loren Legarda
High Level Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Dialogue
Mobilizing Women’s Leadership in Disaster Risk Reduction
14 March 2015 | Sendai, Japan
His Excellency Prime Minister Shinzo Abe,
Minister Sanae Takaichi,
Distinguished panelists,
Ladies and gentlemen,
Good afternoon.
Ten years ago, the Hyogo Framework for Action was adopted by 168 countries at the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, effectively putting a spotlight on the need to shift our approach from disaster relief and response to […]
Senator Loren Legarda today said she will urge participants of the 3rd United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) to place gender equality and women empowerment at the heart of the Post-2015 Framework for DRR as she co-chairs a high level forum on women’s leadership in DRR.
Legarda, UNISDR Champion for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation for Asia-Pacific, will co-chair the High Level Multi-stakeholder Partnership Dialogue on Mobilising Women’s Leadership in DRR with Japanese Minister of Internal Affairs Sanae Takaichi. […]
Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction
Statement of Senator Loren Legarda
IPU Parliamentary Meeting:
Improving Legislation for Disaster Risk Reduction
13 March 2015 | Sendai, Japan
My fellow parliamentarians,
It is my distinct honor and pleasure to speak before you today.
Through many decades, the complexity of the development problems in our world has been widely examined for insights into better approaches and solutions. Yet, the problems have persisted and the tasks for well-intentioned development leaders have become even more daunting as ever.
Participating at the IPU Parliamentary Meeting on Governance and Legislation for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Senator Loren Legarda today stressed the need to bring DRR down to the local level.
Legarda, UNISDR Champion for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation, said that, “as all politics is local, all DRR should be local. We have the building blocks in the model laws that we have enacted. But our laws are nothing but ink on paper if not brought down to the […]
SENDAI, Japan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In the past 30 years, the world has lost more than 2.5 million people and almost $4 trillion because of natural disasters, the president of the World Bank said on Friday as governments prepare to adopt a new global plan to reduce disaster risk.
Speaking in Tokyo on his way to the northeastern city of Sendai, where a U.N. conference aims to finalize the plan, Jim Yong Kim said the 2010 earthquake in Haiti destroyed more than […]
